A coloured petri net based tool for course of action development and analysis
Lin Zhang, Lars Michael Kristensen, Chris Janczura, Guy Edward Gallasch, Jonathan Billington · Formal Methods · 2002
This paper presents a Course Of Action Scheduling Tool (COAST) to support operations planning in the Australian Defence Force (ADF). COAST is a software tool based on Coloured Petri Nets (CPNs or CP-nets) and Design/CPN. It is developed with an underlying conceptual framework that complements the ADF planning process. At the core of COAST is a CPN model that formally specifies the execution of tasks in a course of action. During planning, the CPN model is instantiated with concrete tasks for execution and analysis. COAST has a client-server architecture. The client provides a graphical user interface for task instantiation and lines of operation analysis. The server uses the instantiated CPN model to conduct state space analysis for generating and analysing lines of operation.